Casting
If you could pick any actor/actress to play the main characters in Sailor Moon Stars, who would you pick and why?
*~Ivonne~*
If you could pick any actor/actress to play the main characters in Sailor Moon Stars, who would you pick and why?
*~Ivonne~*
I can answer that question with relative ease, make casting roles seem like a breeze, I may move slow, I can't jump high, but this casting director's one hell of a guy! (DK Rap joke) I also have a few roles I intend to create for Sailor Moon S and this film. Here are my original characters:
The General - Head of the Japanese Army. One hell of a good old boy if you ask me. 75 years old and showing no sign of going bald, but his hair's white.
Makoto Ishikawa - One of Haruka's friends at Gaiden Academy. He tries to impress Haruka by crossdressing, but she says she already has Michiru. He's also a samurai-in-training.
Mr. Brukodan - A tough teacher, he wears an eyepatch because he lost an eye when someone at a local bar picked a fight on him. He's responsible for Makoto Ishikawa's samurai training. His first name starts with a "T".
Rica Suzuki - A girl who finds Haruka to be attractive. Yet she's only a friend; she has no affections for Haruka, partly because she knows about her relationship with Michiru. Rica is a natural-born ballerina; she shows off her skills during her duties as a majorette in the Gaiden Academy marching band.
Admiral Yamamoto - He's a tough Air Force leader. He's just 54 years old, though, and he looks a lot like Michael Madsen. He's a real military guy if you ask me, and he and Commander Yamaguchi are often in agreement with each other.
Commander Yamaguchi - Another Air Force fighter, he's nicknamed "Commander Pterodactyl" because his flying is so primitive he flies like a pterodactyl! Good thing he's not clumsy, though. He and Admiral Yamamoto are often in agreement with each other.
Lieutenant Fuji - Leads a double life as an army lieutenant and a puppeteer. He is one of the few to see Haruka Teno as a worthy addition to the army.
Differences between the anime and the motion picture
* At the beginning, the General recruits Haruka Teno into the army; Haruka, he feels, could be a skilled army soldier. Soon, Haruka is quickly promoted to the rank of "Captain", surpassing the promotion speed of any other person in the Japanese Army. In the Sailor Moon S live-action motion picture, Haruka had lost her right eye and right hand in a fight; the General had then taken her by helicopter to the nearest M*A*S*H unit and gave her a new right hand and new right eye. The new eye was cybernetic, which is why Haruka now wears an eyepatch in public; she does not want her eye's cybernetic features to give away her senshi identity.
*In the pre-title sequence, a la Star Wars III, Professor Tomoe now personally tells Haruka and Michiru to adopt young Hotaru.
*The reunion of the civilian identities of the inner and outer senshi winds up dramatic; everyone had now been required to have a blaster with them at all times at Gaiden Academy and Usagi's high school, and an alien invasion using an intergalactic air force forces Haruka to fire her blaster at the enemy fighter; Commander Yamaguchi of the Japanese Air Force flies in and recruits Usagi and Michiru on the spot.
*We see a new Air Force battle between Japan and the alien air force fleet.
*Nehelenia's death now involves Sailor Mercury hijacking a fighter and firing at Nehelenia. Also, Nehelenia had tied Haruka and Usagi together to a stake, and Michiru mans her fighter, while Haruka cuts herself and Usagi free with a dagger. Haruka quickly alerts the army, while Usagi alerts the air force. Nehelenia's death also occurs at an Air Force base in Tokyo. Before her death, she also takes that base.
*The Sailor Starlights now come before Galaxia; they now first appear in civilian form.
*Usagi's family is now never seen in the motion picture.
*Mamoru now wants to go to college at Medfield College instead of at Harvard University.
*All four of Galaxia's henchwomen now die at the hands of the Sailor Senshi, and each time, the dying henchwoman repents her evil deeds with her last breath. Also, Tin Nyanko now dies when Sailor Uranus fires a blaster at her before Galaxia does Sailor Jupiter in with blaster fire.
*During the series of final battles, the inner senshi die separately instead of together in battle; Sailor Mars is the first to fall, done in by accidental friendly fire from Sailor Saturn; Sailor Venus goes next, slain by Tin Nyanko; Sailor Mercury gets burned to death when Tin Nyanko attacks her after finishing off Sailor Venus; and Sailor Jupiter gets shot in the forehead by blaster fire from Galaxia.
*Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune now don't bump off Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn; instead the dirty work is done by Galaxia herself.
*Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune now don't betray Sailor Moon; instead, they accidentally, mistaking her for an enemy, pin her to the ground, and Sailor Moon is forced to shoot Sailor Neptune.
*A three-way duel between Sailor Moon, Galaxia, and Sailor Uranus now occurs; Sailor Moon, mistaking her for Galaxia (for Galaxia had earlier used an attack on her to make her color-blind), shoots Sailor Uranus in a mistaken-identity case of friendly fire.
*Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are now bumped off separately, though both still die at the same time; Sailor Neptune is done in first, the victim of friendly fire; Sailor Uranus is shot in a three-way duel a la The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly between herself, Sailor Moon, and Galaxia.
*Instead of just fighting Sailor Moon, Galaxia now tortures her excessively and painfully, beating her to a pulp before killing her.
*The civilian identities of the inner and outer senshi now attend the private wedding of Usagi and Mamoru at the end.
Now here's the cast.
"Soldato Grazio Sailormoon Stars" (2008)
A.K.A.
"Sailor Moon Stars" (English version)
Cast (in credits order)
Emma Watson as Sailor Moon; Chibi-usa (voice); Diana (voice); Chibi-chibi (voice)
Rupert Grint as Sailor Uranus
Monica Bellucci as Galaxia
Michael Madsen as Admiral Yamamoto of the Air Force
Masanobu Ando as Commander Yamaguchi of the Air Force
Gene Hackman as the General of the Army
Keiko Han as Luna (voice)
Yasuhiro Takato as Artemis (voice)
Daniel Radcliffe as Sailor Star Fighter
Jeremy Sumpter as Sailor Star Healer
Alex Linz as Sailor Star Maker
Kiera Knightley as Princess Fireball
Bryce Dallas Howard as Sailor Neptune
Debbie Rothstein as Nehelenia
Ringo Starr as Tuxedo Kamen
Aracely Arambula as Iron Mouse
Danielle Panabaker as Aluminum Siren
Ming Na Wen as Lead Crow
Amy Allen as Tin Nyanko
Jake Lloyd as Makoto Ishikawa
Gage Golightly as Rica Suzuki
David Povall as Mr. Brukodan
Jack Davenport as Lieutenant Fuji of the Army
Jessica Sumpter as Sailor Pluto
Rachel Bridges as Sailor Saturn
Breck Bruns as Sailor Mercury
Pia Amendt as Sailor Mars
Ashley Hughes as Sailor Jupiter
Morgan York as Sailor Venus
Wezzie Marmo as Chaos (voice)
Matthew Wood as Professor Souichi Tomoe
Army Soldiers
Antonio Banderas
Gary Burghoff
Enrique Cervantes
Jessie Flower
Giancarlo Giannini
Doug Jones
Lex Lang
Edward Norton
Bryce Papenbrook
Phil Proctor
Jan Rabson
Air Force Pilots
Steve Bulen
Bill Capizzi
Ryan Gosling
Jim Jackman
Ewan McGregor
Ryan O'Donohue
Tom Skeritt
Air Force bridge bunnies
Genevieve Gaunt
Brenna O'Brien
Anna Popplewell
Directors
George Lucas and Martin Campbell
Distributors
Walt Disney Pictures, WNET New York, PBS Pictures, and Cinecitta
Rating
PG-13 for language, violence, disturbing images, brief nudity and intense blood/gore
Country:Italy / USA
Languages:English / Italian / Japanese / Portuguese / Spanish
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